Indexed entity
Queens is the queens-US record in United States: country slug united-states, city slug queens, ISO US, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/New_York.
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Live local time
Queens, United States
06:46:27 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/New_York
Quick answer
It is currently 06:46:27 AM (EDT, UTC-04:00) in Queens, United States — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
55°F
Fog
3-day forecast
Tue
73°F
59°F
Wed
84°F
65°F
Thu
78°F
65°F
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Code
United States Dollar
Quoted as the global reference currency.
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:26 AM
Sunset
08:20 PM
Day length
14h 55m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Queens, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
06:46:27 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EDT
America/New_York · UTC-04:00
Next holiday
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Queens right now
Nearest airport
JFK
John F. Kennedy International Airport · 7 km
Indexed airports
94
Curated airport references available for United States
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Queens, United States.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 06:46 EDT
No reference-city overlap right now
Queens is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-04:00
Zone label
EDT
London
11:46 AM / +5h
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -3h
Dubai
02:46 PM / +8h
Schedule risk
Juneteenth National Independence Day on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
JFK New York, 7 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:26 AM to 08:20 PM, with solar noon around 12:53 PM and total daylight of 14h 54m.
Mapped location
40.68°N, 73.84°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / +5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -3h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / +8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:46 PM / +12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Tokyo
07:46 PM / +13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Queens.
JFK · John F. Kennedy International Airport
New York
LGA · LaGuardia Airport
New York
EWR · Newark Liberty International Airport
Newark
PHL · Philadelphia International Airport
Philadelphia
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/New_York for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-04:00; seasonal offset, UTC-05:00 in January and UTC-04:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Queens right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Juneteenth National Independence Day on Friday, June 19, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: JFK New York, 7 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: November 1, 2026, moving back from 2026-11-01 01:59 (EDT) to 2026-11-01 01:00 (EST).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Queens has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of November 1, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Queens.
Canonical route
/time/united-states/queens/
Catalog identity
queens-US · US · America
Coordinate cell
40.68°N, 73.84°W · lat 40.681 · lon -73.837 · cell 4068:-7384
Population record
2,316,841 residents · country rank 5
Zone snapshot
America/New_York · EDT · UTC-04:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-04:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Brooklyn, United States · 10 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 15 km
Closest airport references
JFK New York 7 km · LGA New York 11 km · EWR Newark 28 km · PHL Philadelphia 149 km
Zone peer roster
New York City, United States · Brooklyn, United States · Philadelphia, United States
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Queens: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Queens is the queens-US record in United States: country slug united-states, city slug queens, ISO US, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/New_York.
40.68°N, 73.84°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 40 and longitude band -74; exact decimal pair 40.68149, -73.83652.
United States: official name United States of America; capital Washington, D.C.; region Americas; subregion North America; country population 340,110,988; area 9,525,067 km²; languages English; currencies USD United States dollar. This is the country layer behind the Queens clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
United States: The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million. Source: Wikipedia.
Brooklyn [brooklyn-US, US, America/New_York, 10 km]; New York City [new-york-city-US, US, America/New_York, 15 km]; Philadelphia [philadelphia-US, US, America/New_York, 139 km]; Montréal [montreal-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 537 km]; Ottawa [ottawa-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 547 km]; Toronto [toronto-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 568 km]; Mississauga [mississauga-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 578 km]; Moncton [moncton-CA, CA, America/Halifax, 945 km]
Queens is part of this indexed country cluster: New York City [new-york-city-US, America/New_York, pop 8,804,190]; Los Angeles [los-angeles-US, America/Los_Angeles, pop 3,820,914]; Brooklyn [brooklyn-US, America/New_York, pop 2,736,074]; Chicago [chicago-US, America/Chicago, pop 2,664,452]; Queens [queens-US, America/New_York, pop 2,316,841]; Houston [houston-US, America/Chicago, pop 2,314,157]; Phoenix [phoenix-US, America/Phoenix, pop 1,650,070]; Philadelphia [philadelphia-US, America/New_York, pop 1,573,916]; San Antonio [san-antonio-US, America/Chicago, pop 1,526,656]; San Diego [san-diego-US, America/Los_Angeles, pop 1,404,452].
New York 15 km; Los Angeles 3,950 km; London 5,561 km; São Paulo 7,676 km; Tokyo 10,861 km; Dubai 11,000 km; Singapore 15,335 km; Sydney 16,003 km
JFK John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York [US, 7 km]; LGA LaGuardia Airport in New York [US, 11 km]; EWR Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark [US, 28 km]; PHL Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia [US, 149 km]; BDL Bradley International Airport in Hartford [US, 170 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ABQ Albuquerque International Sunport in Albuquerque [US]; ALB Albany International Airport in Albany [US]; ANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage [US]; ATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta [US]; AUS Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin [US]; BDL Bradley International Airport in Hartford [US]; BHM Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham [US]; BNA Nashville International Airport in Nashville [US]; BOI Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field in Boise [US]; BOS Boston Logan International Airport in Boston [US].
Queens renders Jun 2, 2026 · 06:46 EDT; EDT at UTC-04:00; January UTC-05:00; July UTC-04:00; next holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day on 2026-06-19.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Queens.
Queens is a manual-dossier city; rank #5 of 29 retained United States city pages. The route is /time/united-states/queens/ and the city id is queens-US.
Queens has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Queens is pinned at 40.68°N, 73.84°W; Brooklyn (10 km); New York (15 km).
America/New_York resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC-05:00 in January and UTC-04:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside United States.
JFK John F. Kennedy International Airport (7 km) · Juneteenth National Independence Day (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 94 country airport references · 16 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Queens uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Queens: Queens is the largest by area of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn and by Nassau County to its east, and shares maritime borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as with New Jersey. Queens is the most linguistically diverse place in the world, as well as one of the most ethnically diverse.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC-05:00 and summer UTC-04:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone America/New_York.
Queens is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours behind UTC (offset -04:00). 5 hours behind London, 13 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -73.84°, Queens's mean solar noon falls about 55 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled -04:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Queens sits at 40.68°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice.
Queens sits at 40.68°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 16 (15h 5m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (9h 15m)
Year-round average
12h 12m
Annual swing
5h 50m
See the full daylight curve for Queens at /sun/queens/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Queens local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Queens |
|---|---|---|
| London | Europe/London | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 23:30 - 07:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
8
Public holidays in 2026
16
Queens is the second-most populous borough of New York City, with about 2.3 million residents, and is coextensive with Queens County. It operates on Eastern Time (EST, UTC-5; EDT, UTC-4 during daylight saving from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November). Queens is widely cited as the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, with roughly half its residents foreign-born and well over a hundred languages spoken across neighbourhoods such as Flushing, Jackson Heights, and Astoria. It is the largest of the five boroughs by land area and hosts two of the New York region's three major airports, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia, as well as Citi Field and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the US Open.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Queens's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:46:27 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Queens (UTC-04:00, EDT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:26 AM to 08:20 PM
Day length 14h 54m · Solar noon 12:53 PM
Next country holiday
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Queens local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
Microsoft Ignite 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 17, 2026
168 days to go
AWS re:Invent 2026
keynoteMonday, November 30, 2026
181 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
CES 2027
keynoteWednesday, January 6, 2027
218 days to go
GDC Festival of Gaming 2027
keynoteMonday, March 1, 2027
272 days to go
Population
2.3M
Coordinates
40.68, -73.84
Timezone
America/New_York
Indexed airports
94
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Languages
English
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
9,525,067 km²
Queens, United States (population rank #5 in this dataset). Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, UTC-04:00); population ~2.3M.
Coordinates: 40.68°N, 73.84°W. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4516 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:26 AM and sets around 08:20 PM in Queens — about 14h 54m of daylight. United States observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Brooklyn (10 km from Queens) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 94 curated airport pages indexed for United States.
Next national holiday: Juneteenth National Independence Day, 2026-06-19.
Queens is indexed as a America city in the US country record, using America/New_York as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/united-states/queens/.
Location context: 40.68°N, 73.84°W; population 2,316,841; nearest indexed city Brooklyn is about 10 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 15 km away.
Country planning context: capital Washington, D.C.; subregion North America; languages English; currency USD ($); area 9,525,067 km²; 94 curated airport references; next holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day on 2026-06-19.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC-05:00 and summer UTC-04:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone America/New_York.
Queens is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours behind UTC (offset -04:00). 5 hours behind London, 13 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -73.84°, Queens's mean solar noon falls about 55 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled -04:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Queens sits at 40.68°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.3 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Queens: New York City (same time), Sydney (+14h), Tokyo (+13h), San Francisco (−3h), Los Angeles (−3h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
united-states
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EDT
IANA Zone
America/New York
UTC Offset
UTC-04:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-04:00
Brazil, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Canada, Montserrat, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Saint Lucia
Other cities in this timezone
London
+5h
Los Angeles
-3h
Dubai
+8h
Singapore
+12h
Tokyo
+13h
Sydney
+14h
São Paulo
+1h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Queens.
Public-disclosure tracker
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Queens: closest hubs New York (~15 km), Los Angeles (~3,950 km), London (~5,561 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,003 km).
Queens sits inside United States — the North America subregion, capital Washington, D.C., languages English, currency USD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Queens: Brooklyn (10 km), New York City (15 km), Philadelphia (139 km), Montréal (537 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Queens: Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labour Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for United States.
Closest curated airport references from Queens: JFK New York (7 km), LGA New York (11 km), EWR Newark (28 km).
US cities often rank because people want to know whether the workday still overlaps with Europe, India, or APAC.
John F. Kennedy International AirportJFK
New York · 7 km from Queens
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
LaGuardia AirportLGA
New York · 11 km from Queens
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Newark Liberty International AirportEWR
Newark · 28 km from Queens
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Philadelphia International AirportPHL
Philadelphia · 149 km from Queens
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Bradley International AirportBDL
Hartford · 170 km from Queens
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:46 AM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | +12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
Queens is in the America/New_York timezone (EDT), with a UTC offset of -04:00.
Queens uses seasonal daylight saving rules in America/New_York. The current offset is UTC-04:00; January resolves to UTC-05:00 and July resolves to UTC-04:00.
The current UTC offset for Queens is UTC-04:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Queens, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 06:46 EDT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Queens sits at 40.68°N, 73.84°W in United States, with about 2.3M residents (rank #5 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Queens is New York, about 15 km away as the crow flies.
Brooklyn is the closest indexed city, roughly 10 km from Queens.
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is the closest curated airport reference, about 7 km from Queens.
Juneteenth National Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in United States, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Queens uses United States dollar (USD, symbol $) as the local currency of United States.
The longest day of 2026 in Queens falls on Jun 16 with about 15h 5m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 9h 15m; the year-round average is 12h 12m.
United States spans 8 IANA time zones in total; Queens's canonical zone for this page is America/New_York.
In Queens local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: London 04:00-12:00; Frankfurt 03:00-11:00; Dubai 01:00-09:00; Mumbai 23:30-07:30 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.